| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: large. And until women are awakened to their pivotal function in the
creation of a new civilization, that new era will remain an impossible
and fantastic dream. The new civilization can become a glorious
reality only with the awakening of woman's now dormant qualities of
strength, courage, and vigor. As a great thinker of the last century
pointed out, not only to her own health and happiness is the physical
degeneracy of woman destructive, but to our whole race. The physical
and psychic power of woman is more indispensable to the well-being
and power of the human race than that even of man, for the strength
and happiness of the child is more organically united with that of the
mother.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: outcast from his realm. Surmising his thoughts, his companions
sought to cheer him. Now the long-desired moment of escape was
at hand, no one thought of repose. The little vessel in which he
intended sailing lay dry upon the shore, the tide being at low
water. The king and his friends, the merchant, the captain, and
the landlord, sat in the well-lighted cosy parlour of the seaport
inn, smoking, playing cards, telling stories and drinking good
ale.
With all such diversions the hours wore heavily away. Their
noisy joviality had an undercurrent of sadness; jokes failed to
amuse; laughter seemed forced; words, mirthful in leaving the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: are wisest. They are the magi.
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